The agency sought a product that required minimum customisation, noting that the Australian Government Information Management Office had recommended the use of commercial- or government-off-the-shelf products.

Specific requirements of the new solution included:

Single Sign On (SSO) functionality for both internal and external users;

Internal authorisation based on an individual's position, roles and skills;

External authorisation based on individual's responsibility within the company;

The ability to define users' "need to know" and "separation of duties", with controls to limit and report on high-risk access combinations;

Business reporting and audit logging functionalities, and the ability to track a user's access in a single system view;

The ability to update authorisations in bulk and as single entries;

Mainframe access control functionality;

A common user interface;

Configurability, extensibility and

‘help’ functionality.

The Tax Office called for expressions of interest from suppliers of high-end enterprise access management solutions until 2 February.

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